Several articles of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania (1992) are related to culture, cultural and natural heritage, rights of ethnic communities, the state language and freedom of expression.
Article 14: Lithuanian shall be the State language.
Article 25: Individuals shall have the right to have their own convictions and freely express them. Individuals must not be hindered from seeking, obtaining, or disseminating information or ideas.
Freedom to express convictions, as well as to obtain and disseminate information, may not be restricted in any way other than as established by law, when it is necessary for the safeguarding of the health, honour and dignity, private life, or morals of a person, or for the protection of constitutional order.
Freedom to express convictions or impart information shall be incompatible with criminal actions the instigation of national, racial, religious, or social hatred, violence, or discrimination, the dissemination of slander, or misinformation.
Citizens shall have the right to obtain any available information which concerns them from State agencies in the manner established by law.
Article 37: Citizens who belong to ethnic communities shall have the right to foster their language, culture, and customs.
Article 42: Culture, science, research and teaching shall be unrestricted. The state shall support culture and science, and shall ensure protection of monuments of Lithuania’s history and art as well as of other cultural monuments and treasures. The law shall safeguard and protect the spiritual and material interests of authors relating to scientific, technical, cultural, and artistic work.
Article 44: Censorship of mass media shall be prohibited. The State, political parties, political and public organisations, and other institutions or persons may not monopolise means of mass media.
Article 45: Ethnic communities of citizens shall independently manage the affairs of their ethnic culture, education, charity, and mutual assistance. Ethnic communities shall be provided support by the state.
Article 47: The right of ownership of entrails of the earth, as well as nationally significant internal waters, forests, parks, roads, and historical, archaeological and cultural facilities shall exclusively belong to the Republic of Lithuania.
Article 54: The State shall concern itself with the protection of the natural environment, its fauna and flora, separate objects of nature and particularly valuable districts, and shall supervise the moderate utilization of natural resources as well as their restoration and augmentation. The exhaustion of land and entrails of the earth, the pollution of waters and air, the production of radioactive impact, as well as the impoverishment of fauna and flora, shall be prohibited by law.
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